Sandy Rupp's Challenge

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She notes that in 2007, when U-M president Mary Sue Coleman cochaired the campaign, donations from university staffers topped $1.1 million--an all-time record. "If every employee gave five dollars a month, what could we raise?" she muses. "You can dream sometimes.

"Our best hope," she adds, "is that the U of M fills the Pfizer building with lots of scientists."